FIRST TIME MUM NEEDS SOME MN ADVICE.......

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A quick summary:
My dd is 14 months old.
A few children at her M&T group have just recovered from chicken pox.
My SIL has just had a new dd.

The question for the MN community is:
Would I be putting new baby at risk of chicken pox if we went to visit.

(I realise I'm probably worrying unecessarily, so feel free to have a go at my expense )

Okay, let's work it out ... if your DD was in contact with any of the M&T children in the couple of days before their spots came out, or approximately five after they came out, and that was in the last three weeks or less, she could be incubating chicken pox, so you could be exposing the new baby to chicken pox if you went to visit.

But if she's only seen the M&T children after they've recovered, no. Or if she was in contact with them during an infectious phase, but it was more than three weeks ago (chicken pox incubation is 10-20 days), again, no.

If you're not entirely sure, but risk it anyway, if DD doesn't have spots by about three days after the visit, you're in the clear - even if she's incubating it for later, she wouldn't have been infectious when you visited.

This is after not seeing my mate and her daughters (one young baby) for four weeks after two sets of exposure to definitely infectious children ... ! Neither of whom my DD got the pox from, btw, she got it from nursery shortly afterwards instead.

Thanks for the comment lack.
She's been in contact with them in that period.
She's got a few spots appeared on her face this morning, but don't know if it's the pox or just a heat rash.
I'll avoid the new bub for a few days more to be sure.

Thanks again

Well if it is the pox, I hope she has as easy time as DD did - if it weren't for her being three and therefore quite aware that being covered and spots and kept off nursery was unusual, I don't think she'd even have noticed she was ill ... obviously though we had to tell her what she had, so we had (and still have!) the occasional long face and woeful 'I got chicken pox', but she's had it pretty mildly.

Dh and I decided to compromise by going over to hand in present and wave to new bub through a window - keeping dd well away.

However, we phoned my brother to see if he was going to be in and told him about our situation, upshot is SIL won't even let us do that.

Thanks again for the advice though.
Much appreciated

My DD got chicken pox at 5 months and was fine with it (and turned from a monster to a lovelt baby after it too), now everyone around seems to be getting it at the mo and DS 13 months, just can't seem to catch it, no matter how hard I try!

Nephew just had it and sister never has, but she still didn't get it from her son!

Guess some people are just naturally immune?

TBH, I don't blame your sil. It can be quite serious for a newborn, so I would have waited a few weeks until all the spots had ahve time to come out, and then go again!